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GHSA-HCP4-6C7V-W8F2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-30 09:32 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cdrom: rearrange last_media_change check to avoid unintentional overflow

When running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer wrap sanitizer we encounter this splat:

[ 366.015950] UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:2361:33 [ 366.021089] -9223372036854775808 - 346321 cannot be represented in type '__s64' (aka 'long long') [ 366.025894] program syz-executor.4 is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO [ 366.027502] CPU: 5 PID: 28472 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-00035-gb3ef86b5a957 #1 [ 366.027512] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 366.027518] Call Trace: [ 366.027523] [ 366.027533] dump_stack_lvl+0x93/0xd0 [ 366.027899] handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0 [ 366.038787] ata1.00: invalid multi_count 32 ignored [ 366.043924] cdrom_ioctl+0x2c3f/0x2d10 [ 366.063932] ? __pm_runtime_resume+0xe6/0x130 [ 366.071923] sr_block_ioctl+0x15d/0x1d0 [ 366.074624] ? __pfx_sr_block_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [ 366.077642] blkdev_ioctl+0x419/0x500 [ 366.080231] ? __pfx_blkdev_ioctl+0x10/0x10 ...

Historically, the signed integer overflow sanitizer did not work in the kernel due to its interaction with -fwrapv but this has since been changed [1] in the newest version of Clang. It was re-enabled in the kernel with Commit 557f8c582a9ba8ab ("ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow sanitizer").

Let's rearrange the check to not perform any arithmetic, thus not tripping the sanitizer.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-42136"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-190"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-07-30T08:15:05Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncdrom: rearrange last_media_change check to avoid unintentional overflow\n\nWhen running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer wrap\nsanitizer we encounter this splat:\n\n[  366.015950] UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:2361:33\n[  366.021089] -9223372036854775808 - 346321 cannot be represented in type \u0027__s64\u0027 (aka \u0027long long\u0027)\n[  366.025894] program syz-executor.4 is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO\n[  366.027502] CPU: 5 PID: 28472 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-00035-gb3ef86b5a957 #1\n[  366.027512] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[  366.027518] Call Trace:\n[  366.027523]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  366.027533]  dump_stack_lvl+0x93/0xd0\n[  366.027899]  handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0\n[  366.038787] ata1.00: invalid multi_count 32 ignored\n[  366.043924]  cdrom_ioctl+0x2c3f/0x2d10\n[  366.063932]  ? __pm_runtime_resume+0xe6/0x130\n[  366.071923]  sr_block_ioctl+0x15d/0x1d0\n[  366.074624]  ? __pfx_sr_block_ioctl+0x10/0x10\n[  366.077642]  blkdev_ioctl+0x419/0x500\n[  366.080231]  ? __pfx_blkdev_ioctl+0x10/0x10\n...\n\nHistorically, the signed integer overflow sanitizer did not work in the\nkernel due to its interaction with `-fwrapv` but this has since been\nchanged [1] in the newest version of Clang. It was re-enabled in the\nkernel with Commit 557f8c582a9ba8ab (\"ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow\nsanitizer\").\n\nLet\u0027s rearrange the check to not perform any arithmetic, thus not\ntripping the sanitizer.",
  "id": "GHSA-hcp4-6c7v-w8f2",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:31:07Z",
  "published": "2024-07-30T09:32:02Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42136"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c97527e916054acc4a46ffb02842988acb2e92b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ee21e14c8c329168a0b66bab00ecd18f5d0dee3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e809bc112712da8f7e15822674c6562da6cdf24c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efb905aeb44b0e99c0e6b07865b1885ae0471ebf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}



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